Few exceptions aside, the most compelling, challenging, absorbing literary art is being produced by small presses and their respective writers.…
Edward Mullany’s If I Falter at the Gallows
Edward’s book is now available. It’s stark, it’s funny, it’s sad–verse reflected by the book’s cover (also by Edward): American…
Between Blog and Book: Mairéad Byrne’s The Best of (What’s Left Of) Heaven
Publishing Genius, 2010 ISBN: 978-0-9820813-5-8 208 pages A kind of Lydia Davis of the poetry world, Mairéad Byrne is an…
Belladonna* & Dusie Present: The Summer Reading
Kate Zambreno (whom I’m trying to get nicknamed “KaZam!”—do pass it on) asked me to draw your kind attention to…
the sacred and the profane: a look at the cover of a book by rachel b. glaser
There might be more than one way to understand the cover of Pee on Water, the collection of short fiction…
5 Books Published in 2009 that Wrecked My Brain a Little
Easter Rabbit, Joseph Young. This is an IMPORTANT book. Some reviewer predicted early in Richard Brautigan’s career that he was…
Bradley Sands’s Best of 2009
Here’s a quick run-through of the books that I read this year and came out this year. Pretty much the…
Justin Sirois answers all the questions
Guest post by GINNY PARKER WOODS: I read Justin Sirois’s book MLKNG SCKLS (Publishing Genius) last week on the subway,…